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...politics, too, they were conservatives. During the Grant-Greeley Presidential campaign a few months before the appearance of the Magenta, the student body staged a torchlight campaign for Grant through Boston. An unexplained record has it that one Freshman carried a poster of Greeley suffering from the Horse Epidemic

Author: By Norman S. Poser, | Title: College Was Rural, Self-Contained 75 Years Ago as Golden Age Began | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

...long ago, on street hoardings and building walls in Vienna, there appeared a slick American poster bearing a message stamped across an Austrian ration card (see cut). The message read: "Sixty percent of your ration is a present from American aid for Austria. The money that you pay for it stays in the country. The Austrian government uses it to help the needy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Let There Be News | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...poster was one indication of the State Department's earnest intention to meet Communist propaganda against the U.S. in Europe. Under Secretary of State Robert A. Lovett now feels that there is another pertinent way of telling the U.S. story. That, he said, would be the delivery by air to Europe of U.S. newspapers and magazines. In a letter to Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley (one of a number of Congressmen to broach the scheme), Lovett said that the department would ask Congress for funds to finance such a project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Let There Be News | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...used anything and everything he had seen as his subject: departure, return, alerts, men in bunks, cooks cooking ("The cooks might not like my paintings, but they appreciated that I was painting a cook"). The pictures he exhibited last week were patterned with the crude simplicity of a poster; his people angular, always distorted; his colors somber, often murky. But the moods he created were sure: the loneliness of a woman reading a letter from overseas, the tortured plunge into battle, the exhausted letdown of victory. It took him just under a year to do the series, working regularly ("good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Strike Fast | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Because of an incorrect date on the poster in the Union, late petitions can be filed at Thayer 46 until 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon by those desirous of public office who fell prey to the faulty information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smoker Campaigns Begin to Pick Freshman Committee | 12/11/1947 | See Source »

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